#583 Big Time with Laura Vanderkam (A Career Well Spent Series)

One thing that hasn't changed is there are still 168 hours in a week. Every Monday, when you're starting over again, you get to decide how to spend it. gonna talk about time. How do you make sure your time is well spent in your career? And the expert I'm gonna be talking to is Laura Vanderkampf. Time is precious. There is only so much of it. I believe we do have a lot of time. Time is big, time is big enough for what matters to us, but part of having enough space. For the things that matter to us is to be very judicious. Tracking your time.

For a week. is one of the best things you can do to change your perception. Of time. I've been tracking my time for eleven years now. Somebody that is feeling Sounding a bit like me, like the time victim, and we're moving them to like the big time transformer. What what other things could they start doing so they feel a bit more in control? Hi, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers Podcast, and you are listening to our summer series, which is all about a career well spent. Sarah and I thought that summer was a really good moment to reflect. Maybe you're flying somewhere, or maybe your colleagues have gone on holiday and you've got a little bit more time to think.

And we would love some of that time to be spent thinking about your career, the impact and purpose, and that is what this series is all about. We thought it would be even better if we borrowed some brilliance for some experts in this area. So, in the four conversations that we've got in this series, you're gonna hear us talking to people about purpose about career longevity, about impactful work that really makes a difference, about building the right relationships. And in today's conversation, we're gonna talk about time. How do you make sure your time is well spent in your career? And the expert I'm gonna be talking to is Lau Vanderkamp. I've followed her work for a while. She's got a new book out called Big Time. And the reason I love Laura's work is it is just so practical. I mean, like minute by minute, how do you track it? How do you think about where you're spending that? Um, and I think she helps you go from bit of overwhelm about where your time is being spent right now to crystal clear clarity about what you could do differently. And I really hope that comes across in this conversation, which felt like a personal coaching session for me, if I'm honest. So I hope you can take

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